Re: Informix in the news! Part Deux... RANT TIME

Davorin Kremenjas said: > > OK, people, please tell me what "FOC" means, so I can understand what > you're > talking about :) > Thanks! Free Of Charge. > "Maelwys Filidh" <lleu@hotmail.com> wrote in message > news:dns2ha$6b8$1@news.xmission.com... > >> I did hear from a US contact that IBM were making Express FOC, to >> compete >> with Oracle 10G Express, which I understand is becoming FOC, and SQL >> Server >> Express which is. I was also advised by IBM some months ago to call back >> around now as 'something is happenning soon' re IDS Express. However, it >> looks like I was misinformed. Christine Normile assures me there are no >> such >> plans. > > -- Bye now, Obnoxio "C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien ` dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule" - Coluche did i mention i like nulls? heck, i even go so far as to say that all columns in a table except the primary key could/should be nullable. this has certain advantages, for example, if you need to insert a child record and you don't have a parent row for it, just do an insert into the parent table with the primary key value (everything else null), and voila, relational integrity is preserved. but this is, admittedly, a bit controversial among modellers. --r937, dbforums.com sending to informix-list